The Tipping Point Against Tyranny

When does an individual reach their tipping point against tyrannical abuse? For that matter, when does a nation collectively reach its tipping point against governmental abuse?

I avoid flying as much as I can because I really don’t relish having a pot-bellied pervert in a blue uniform from the TSA putting their grotesque hands on my body. And for the most part I have been able to avoid dealing with the abuses of the TSA by not flying. However, the abuses of the TSA are spreading to many other domains in our lives. Not only is the government violating our rights and conditioning us to accept dehumanization, so are many of our corporate entities.

There are main four points to this article: (1) This article will examine the expansive nature of the TSA/DHS as well as various corporate entities who believe that they have an inherent right to abuse our citizens; (2) This article will also take a look at our collective and typical reaction to the type of TSA invasive policies being put into place by other institutions such as the National Football League; (3) This piece will examine the comments and attitudes of the American sheep that think these East German Stasi style tactics are permissible; and, (4) Suggestions will be offered as to what we can do to both corporate institutions as well as the government, who believe that they can do what they will with the general public.

Government Abuse Is Literally Everywhere

Americans are not even phased by the admission that the NSA has broken the law tens of thousands of times to spy on its own citizens. This is what the Stasi did in East Germany. But you have nothing to hide, right?

In Santa Fe, New Mexico, the TSA conducted invasive and intrusive security searches at a local high school prom in 2011. The TSA has randomly shown up at shopping malls in order to conduct their intrusive and illegal searches.

The TSA and the Department of Homeland Security have conducted a multitude of Fourth Amendment violating roadside searches of drivers and vehicles on the nations highways, train stations and bus depots without warrant or the presence of emergency conditions.

The TSA has randomly shown up at various public events (concerts, mall events, etc.) and engaged in their thuggish enhanced security measures. Soon, the American storm troopers will be everywhere demanding to touch you in places that you and I would get five years in prison for doing to another human being.

Of course, when I publicly express these views, some sheep will undoubtedly ask me “Don’t we know that the government loves us and this is why they have to violate our rights? If you don’t have anything to hide, then why do you care?” This has become the justification of the establishment for these goon type of Stasi/Gestapo/KGB practices.Remember, they love us and want to protect us.

NSA director, Keith Alexander, must love us a lot as he justified illegal spying from his agency by saying that “We have to spy on Americans to keep them safe.” I recall what one of the founding fathers would have said about Alexander’s philosophy as Ben Franklin commented on this approach to tyrannical government.

The NFL Is the New TSA

In November, as I have done so many times before, I was planning to drive my family from Arizona to San Diego to watch my favorite sports team, the Denver Broncos, play the San Diego Chargers. We were also going to turn the event into a mini-vacation.

These plans have now been modified. The Hodges family will still travel to San Diego, but we will not be attending the football game. In fact, I have attended my last NFL game under the new Sovietization of the National Football League.

The National Football League has instituted new security rules at all stadiums and these new rules ban certain items:“Prohibited items include, but are not limited to: purses larger than a clutch bag, coolers, briefcases, backpacks, fanny packs, cinch bags, seat cushions, luggage of any kind, computer bags and camera bags or any bag larger than the permissible size.” And, they have granted themselves the “right” to touch you anywhere, in their enhanced pat downs from the ankles and above. Welcome to Police State America, NFL style.

The People React

In an Arizona Republic newspaper article (8/18/2013, B1, B6), people weighed in on the new NFL policies.

Sue Kish, 48,while attending an Arizona Cardinals game, found that she her two daughters were told that their clear plastic container, designed to replace her banned purse, was too large and she would have to return her belongings to her car. Kish proceeded back to her car with her two daughters in tow. All three expressed frustration including her daughter, Natalie, as she asked if she had to “..put our tampons in a clear plastic bag? (Az Republic, B1).” Natalie gets it. Some people get it, however, most Americans don’t get it as they continue to tolerate the increasing level of tyranny in this country as evidenced by the following quote made by Heather Gunderson, an Arizona Cardinals season-ticket holder, who was quoted in the Arizona Republic about her response to the new invasive NFL security rules.

“It is kind of a nuisance…but I do understand the rule. It’s a whole new world, and you’ve got to follow the rules and regulations and be safe.”

Heather Gunderson

Cardinals season-ticket holder (AZ Republic, 8/18/13, B6)

Obviously, Ms. Gunderson never grasped the teachings of Ben Franklin and the folly of trading liberty for security in her high school history class. Henderson is correct about one thing, it is a whole new world, as in the new world order. The Gunderson quote is typical of our citizens and represents why I believe we are losing our country. We have largely lost the ability to think for ourselves. Most of our people fail to appreciate where America is heading. Clearly, our national tyranny meters are turned off. Oh, I know, we have to worry about the terrorists. Since the first casualty on the war on terror has been the Constitution, I think we have pretty much lost that war.

The people that acquiesce to this tyranny would likely tell you that America is the best nation in the world. If you are a sheep, you probably believe the old Bush propaganda when he said “they” hate us because of our freedoms. Really?

Amnesty international rated America 21st in political freedoms. We are also 20th in per capita income, have the 51st longest lifespan in the world. We spend more on war than the next 26 nations combined and they are supposedly our allies. The U.S. has 25% of the world’s prison population despite only having 5% of the world’s population. The U.S. has lost 86% of its former manufacturing base courtesy of the free trade agreements so that its super elite can become even more wealthy. We have the most expensive health care in the world. We have the most expensive college education in the world. We lead the industrialized world in “death by doctor.” Fifty percent of Americans pay the taxes for the elite 1%, and 50% of the new underclass who do not work, do not pay tax right along with the elite. Through the NDAA, Executive Order 13603 and the Patriot Acts, we have eviscerated our Constitution and we are no longer a nation of laws but instead are ruled by autocratic, unelected elite who rule by whim. Five corporations control 98% of the media and I have to go to European news websites to get any semblance of the news that we cannot get here. The U.S. is among the leaders in the world in child sex-slave trafficking. Corporations such as DynCorps and the Second Mile Foundation have been found to have trafficked in children and nobody goes to jail. The U.S. is involved in every civil war in the planet. We conduct false flag operations against our own people for political gain. Unlike most nations in the world, America maims, tortures and kills people it disagrees with. Guantanamo is quickly becoming an image that foreigners associate with our country.

America used to make things, we were innovative, we had a moral character and we stood for something. America is a hollow shell of the country that I grew up in. They hate us for our freedoms? That ship sailed a long time ago.

The Stupidity of Trading Liberty for Security

We have sponsored state-run terrorism. On one hand, we say we are prosecuting a war on terror and then in the next moment we are arming our so-called enemies. The truth remains is that we have created this boogey man as a means to destroy the Constitution and strip people of their rights as a prelude to total enslavement.

Somebody should enlighten the sheep of America that the United States originally funded the Mujahedeen and Osama Bin Laden in their Afghan war against Soviet occupation. According to our government, al-Qaeda did 9/11. Yet, we now know that our government has provided arms for al-Qaeda on at least two different occasions. The first time was in Libya in order to help the al-Qaeda led rebels overthrow the Libyan government. because the Libyans would not sacrifice their sovereignty and join the central banking community. The second time is in Syria in which, again, the rebels (e.g. al-Qaeda) are being armed by the CIA to overthrow Assad. Now we are subjecting our people to state-sponsored molestation and illegal and unconstitutional searches who attend our public venues because the government can’t decide, on any day of the week, which side al-Qaeda is on.

As an aside, did you know that last fall the NFL agreed to allow DHS to use its stadium facilities for emergencies and large scale detentions? Simon Properties, the largest owners of malls and shopping centers in North America agreed to the same thing. In light of this, does the term “FEMA camps” sound so outlandish?

America, the best nation in the world? It depends on your perspective. If you are the elite 1% or the 50% of the country on some type of public welfare supported by people like me, America is a great place to be. For everybody else we are in rapid moral and economic decline.

Line In the Sand

I have decided to draw some very distinct lines in the sand against these invasive and highly illegal policies. I would encourage all of you to draw a line in the sand.

I am no longer submitting to any unconstitutional actions by our government or by any private institution which is mimicking our government’s constitutional violations of our personal liberties.

If the TSA is going to be conducting enhanced body searches at the local high school prom. Our children should not attend and we should find another venue and provide the same entertainment opportunities.

If the TSA is searching people going into malls, do not go into that mall. Go home, call the mall ownership and the stores you were going to shop at and let them know why you are not patronizing them. Watch the merchants scream at the government. Bring the allies of these tyrannical entities to their economic knees.

Stop flying except in extreme emergencies (i.e. bereavement). If we bring the airlines to their knees, there will be a change in policy because our system has become a shining example of corporatism.

Stop attending concerts, football games, basketball games, baseball games and other events which impose these illegal and intrusive searches. If the stadiums become half full, watch how fast the policy changes.

When we are stopped by goons at a DHS roadblock so they can illegally search any citizen, without a warrant, as well as our cars, we need to refuse to submit. If enough of us engage in these types of nonviolent civil disobedience acts, we can paralyze the court system as they will surely try and prosecute us. Subsequently, we can someday reach a counter critical mass which will destroy the intended net effect of these tyrannical actions.

America, we have a choice. We have a choice on whether we are going to make our government and all other institutions follow the Constitution. As for my family, we have written an email to the NFL offices telling them why we will no longer be attending any NFL games or buying any NFL gear. For my family, the abbreviation, NFL, now stands for “Not For Long.”

I encourage all of you to target any government agency and at least one business entity who is engaged in these types of illegal activities and write to them and tell them why you will no longer support them. If they lose enough money, change will follow. And finally, we must realize that we are at war and it is a war that will likely continue to be waged as long as you have breath because evil never takes a holiday. This war does indeed pit good vs. evil.

I have reached my tipping point against tyranny, when will you reach yours?

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27 Comments

Energy Doctor
August 19, 2013 at 5:21 am

Dave, I am on board. I as horrified by how many of my firends who are successful, smart people kow tow to the TSA with the idea is that it isn’t a big eal. When I would talk about the child or the grandma who is felt up by these troglodites, the answer is a shrug of the shoulders.
My wife is the head of a private school and you would not believe the numbers of parents who are clamoring that they follow the “common core” curriculum. Of course, they won’t know what is in it till the kids are dumbed down in their adulthood.
thanks for a great web site, I reached my tipping pint six months ago, even if half my friends think I am crazy. I am in construction related products that are energy saving and I can tell you that if there were no public funded construction projects, there would be no construction at all.

Theodore W Haggard
August 19, 2013 at 5:56 am

First we tried the “soap box” and we found out that,that didn’t work.
Second,we tried the “ballot box” well that didn’t work either.
Third,the only box left is the “ammo box”.

Any questions?

William
August 19, 2013 at 6:54 am

To Mr Hodges, Your columns hit the point, every day. It is incredible. I believe that the following three changes are needed for the constitution to suppress evil for an extended time.
1) Selection day. No more elections, elections always go to corruptness. Lottery, criteria maybe, those that want the job, can put their name in a hat and when Selection Day comes, a person can select a name to fill the selected official job.
2) Government Staff, max of 5 years. No govt worker can work for any aspect of any govt, State, Local, Federal for an accumulated max of 5 years. All Govt employees must be born in the US proper, no exceptions.
3) All Companies, entities, government, profit, not for profit, etc, can only have 100 maximum employees, No more. The goal of life is not to amass riches, the goal is to seek GOD ENLIGHTENMENT. Thus, 100 employees is enough. This will force cooperative interactions, healthy competition, and it will stop monopolies. Even the Military, though it may be contracted by the Government, as even every Government entity can only have a maximum of 100 employees, the Military, will need to be in 100 person blocks, though many of the military contractors may do the same task, as we may need a million man army give or take, it can only be in 100 person chunks. Each its own entity.
Thank you

SWIFT
August 19, 2013 at 7:32 am

We are a nation of sheep, led by wolves. In the midst of the sheep, are a few hunters. Our duty is to increase the number of hunters, or perish.

David
August 19, 2013 at 8:11 am

Former slave Frederick Douglass advised: “Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. … The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” In other words, unless and until people are uncomfortable they will continue to tolerate tyranny. Even then most folks are passive by nature and will allow themselves to be lorded over. There are few people willing to rock the boat. As long as they can turn on their television to keep up with the Kardashian’s and go to McGMO for a burger they will comply. This is mostly a result of the inculcation of government schools.

It’s interesting however to watch events unfold. A couple of years ago there was a lot of push back against the TSA and their continued violations. Fast forward to a few weeks ago and the revelations about the NSA. One has to wonder why millions of people aren’t descending on the District of Corruption with pitchforks and torches to demand that the government cease and desist. But there is barely an outcry.

I attribute this apathy to a couple of things. One, government schools have trained people to be compliant. Government is regarded as superior to the individual. The collective is more important than you, the individual. Second, churches in this country have misinterpreted Romans 13 and taught for years now that government should be obeyed unconditionally. The pastors and ministers of modern american Christendom have done a huge disservice to their flocks by teaching this Scofield/Darby inspired doctrine.

Bear in mind, 95% of the language and words in the constitution are devoted to what the government can do and how it should operate. Only 5% of the words are devoted to the rights of the individual and those are highly conditioned. As an example the 4th amendment is conditioned gives government a pass by declaring that searches and seizures have to be “reasonable”. This gives the TSA a lot of latitude because after all, we are all potential terrorists. Especially if you run a website that is devoted to criticizing the government.

Where are the sheriffs in this country who could evict the TSA from the airports within their counties? A few months ago there was a ton of these clowns who came out against any legislation limiting the 2nd amendment saying they would not enforce any anti-gun legislation. And yet they allow TSA to operate with impunity at the airports in their jurisdictions. I live in Maricopa County, Arizona, home to that tough guy Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Where is he? He’s such a staunch supporter of the constitution yet he allows TSA to operate at Sky Harbor Airport. These guys are mostly showmen and politicians who can’t be trusted. Same with the military, they can’t be trusted either.

ScottinTexas
August 19, 2013 at 9:27 am

There is no tipping point for a nation that continues to reelect the same fools who prove themselves complicit with these plans.

P.S. – I’m so glad you require a math question to post comments … keep a lot of idiots from posting.

Dave, there is no doubt that you are right.
But there is something going on in the minds of most people.
It could be fluoride.
It could be pharmaceuticals in the drinking water.
I don’t know.
But Americans are just plain apathetic to the point of stupidity.
I don’t get it.
Laziness is an understatement.
I think they hope that all the badness will just go away.
They live by the slogan “No problem is so big that it cannot be ignored.”
This is how the USSA works today.

I was just blackballed out of nursing school by the lower faculty because I dared to say that injecting the flu vaccine is an invasive procedure and any invasive procedure is risky in some way and it is probably a better idea to get the inhaled kind if any.
I did not violate a written policy. It was just some public servants overstepping their authority.
But they sincerely thought they were doing the “right thing” in getting rid of “my type”.
I am a 46-year-old army vet and they could not handle that I was not a pliable little 18-year-old girl type.
So they freaked out.
They told me they have ways of getting rid of me if I don’t quit.
They didn’t care that i had the best grades in the class or that I was the only one who didn’t faint at the sight of blood.
They valued complicity down to the thinking level.
No one can think outside the ANA box until told to do so.
I am not writing this as some sob story but in order to share an object lesson in the psychology of this system we have here.
We can’t win (or have a revolution) until there is nothing left for the gatekeepers to lose.
The most selfish sycophantic narcissists among us are the cause and perpetuators of our enslavement.
They keep those that actually CAN make a difference OUT while recruiting more like themselves IN.
This, I believe, is the dynamic of all strata of USSA life now.
There is a good old boy network of toadies that tightens up its perimeter as things get more competitive.
And unless you we can find a way to drive a wedge into the psychology (or sociology) of that system nothing will change until it is 12:01 and the toadies have lost THEIR livelihood.
Even though they are dumb they are strong because they are united in purpose (selfishly yes, but united none the less).
Like bees, they have the strength of the hive mentality. Together their apathy is omnipotent.

BTW- does anyone out there know a good lawyer? I live in Kentucky so I will need one from out of state to battle this. There is a good old boy network of attorneys here.

THE DOG AND PONY SHOW is ending ,THANK GOD,for that,I’ve been watching this for 50 years wondering when americans would wake up.and realize the governments been robbing them blind,and attacking their children,and no one cared…….but ITS OVER,THE LORD said get ready to leave,AMERICA is about to be attacked and most everyone will be killed,the russians and american military are going to NUKE 30 cities and INVADE and finish off the surviving population,and only a hand full will survive,for 4 generations the stupidist children on earth have been taught DEATH is better then life and all the schools and parents agreed, freedom ain’t worth getten off the couch for,pass the bon,bons please……………..

BeanBag
August 19, 2013 at 11:09 am

I thought we run the government? I thought we tell them what to do? I thought we outnumber by 300,000,000 million people? How can roughly 300 people tell us what to do? All it takes to stop them is very teeny small percentage showing up at their office. So what gives?

THE COMMON SENCE SHOW,do any of you even know where common sence comes from?? LET ME GIVE YOU A CLUE cause I’ve yet to meet anyone who knew,it comes from a kids who fell out of a tree and broke his arm,and kids who got the hell beat out of them when they stole the neighbors property,it came from going to work with their dad and learning to do things with out cutting off their fingers,and working on a farm and taking care of the animals and raising crops to feed a hungry nation,AND GETTING THEIR HANDS REALLY DIRTY,working all day AND NOT GETTING PAID a dime for helping support the family,learning to do things and NOT HAVE THE WOMEN interfer,worring OH,he might hurt himself,you damed right he’ll hurt himself if he’s stupid and don’t learn to be careful,and that won’t never happen in front of the TV all day, now will it…………he also won’t have a lick of sence either………………….

THE GOOD LORD said common sence is down to THREE % of the american population,that ends any nation,the endless attacks on ones own children,ends any nation,teaching the children to be OK with all his friends being fagots,and child molesters,thiefs and cheats,and throwing the RULE BOOK OUT in the name of everyone doing his own THING,and they are to,this nation couldn’t survive another minute if the LORD weren’t so gracious to hope it could be saved,BUT I think even HE’S GIVEN UP,america is determined to go to hell and I don’t think it can be stopped……WE’LL know here soon…………………

ambience
August 19, 2013 at 3:10 pm

I just wrote in a letter to a friend in Ireland: “My ancestors came here in the early
1700’s. They fought in the Revolutionary War and again in the Civil War. They
were founders in Pennsylvania and mother’s families in Texas. They would not
recognize what has become of the Constitution, that is being torn to shreds by
Communists and tyranny. This is not a society they would fight to preserve.
My fellow countrymen are fast asleep, caught up in a great delusion, and soon
it will spread worldwide.
God is love and I know whose side I am on.”

JohnZ
August 19, 2013 at 3:14 pm

I agree with Nursing R. It could very well be the fluoride as well as drugs in water supplies…..some of it of course is dumped down the toilet by stupid people. Whether or not there is any proof that actual mind control drugs beside fluoride is being used is up for investigation. However, the evidence is clear: there are far too many stupid, ignorant and dumbed down people in this country who don’t care as long as they can watch American Idle, Dancing With the Sluts or their favorite sports. These people are getting the government they deserve and they will deserve whatever else happens to them.
Television is an opiate, along with the junk foods and high fructose corn syrup(GMO) sweetened soft drinks, is it any wonder this nation is in the trouble it is. Fat, stupid and too lazy to care is what these morons exhibit to the rest of the world.
“Government is not reason. It is not eloquent. It is Force. Like fire; it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.” George Washington.

Mary Brown
August 19, 2013 at 4:20 pm

Scramble every email, drown their computers in scrambled communications until the system croaks from to much traffic. Send random bible passages scrambles to yourself at a different email address… jam the system from within

Ed
August 19, 2013 at 4:31 pm

“For that matter, when does a nation collectively reach its tipping point against governmental abuse?”
When enough are no longer working for or receiving pension money and food stamps from the “government”.

EDITOR’S NOTE: You will want to read my next article which is coming out tomorrow. In the article I compare the number of employed Americans to the number on welfare. It is eye opening.

oot
August 19, 2013 at 5:06 pm

Is Ronald Reagan arming the mujahedeen to defeat Soviet communists in the 1980s like us expecting help to defeat tyranny? Are we the good guys? Were the Mujahedeen the good guys? I think help will not be coming to us.

I get the impression from younger people they think communist nihilist athiest tyranny never happens, like it is all fake. They should read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Kitty Werthmann.

starviego
August 19, 2013 at 5:57 pm

“…we have written an email to the NFL offices telling them why we will no longer be attending any NFL games or buying any NFL gear.”

Do that and the NFL will still be hugely profitable. Stop watching the games on TV!!
(I strongly suspect many of them are rigged anyway.)

David O'Grady
August 19, 2013 at 6:09 pm

I’m an old man by most standards (Viet Nam Vet) and learned got my degree in life’s ability to take care of whatever needs to be done from the School of Hard Knocks. I, might add, I got a 4.0 average so, yeah, I am able to fully appreciate the line in the sand mentality.
Frankly, while I pray daily for an awakening of the soul of all americans, I assure you it is not going to happen. We all know the gimmethats will never give you anything but heartache and TPTB are well pleased with themselves for their success in that regard.

I, too, have notified “My” Cardinals management that I will not be attending any more of their venues nor purchasing any gear of any kind for any team (Really a die hard Bronco’s fan.) but that has died a hard death…. I will not fly and it has fermented a lot of hostility in the home as the sheep I live with won’t open their eyes. The only aspect of the TSA/DHS horror that gives me concern is the unannounced road stops. I really wonder what I would do. Do I pull out my piece and go to war, turn around and leave (if they’d let me which I don’t think is a possibility) or go to jail? Jail may not be too bad at first glance but I worked 30+ years in a court room and I can tell you it is not somewhere you want to go voluntarily….

Henry
August 19, 2013 at 6:54 pm

Perhaps a hundred years of enslavement and tyranny is necessary for people to once again cherish freedom.

Currently, the common people will not work together to advance each other. Instead, the same admonitions are offered ad nauseum, by self-appointed sages. The armchair sage usually writes, “You people better wake up!” So the answer is for other people to wake up, while the patriot sage returns to his TV show.

Some armchair heroes post a long list of secret laws that supposedly PROVE that America is still a colony of Britain; you are a corporation; bank notes contain secret code that legally binds you to the bank; the courts are not actually courts; there is a secret Treasury Direct Account in your name for billions of dollars; the Queen is a shape-shifting reptile and a lots of other dribble. This is copied and pasted from site to site by folks who like to pretend that they are “in the know” and are giving us a glimpse of their tremendous brilliance. When asked to explain the relevance of this dribble, or how it can be effectively used in daily life, there is no reply.

If you are really lucky, you may be tipped off as to where you can contact a paytriot for profit who will sell you the key to freedom for only a few thousand dollars. Supposedly, once you have the key, judges will flee the courtroom, police will run away in fear, and the TSA will endlessly apologize and you won’t need to remove your shoes.

You don’t have a few thousand dollars to spare? Don’t worry! The sages pronounce lots of solutions via limits that should be on government, banks and big business. Of course there is no explanation as to how these limits will ever be enacted, let alone imposed.

Alternatively, the sages say, just pray to Jesus who told us that these things would happen and who is about to appear, at any second now, to restore justice and freedom and prevent World War III. You do remember how Jesus appeared and prevented World War I and again to prevent World War II? Yes we are about to be raptured away, at any second now, to avoid the horrors of World War III, just like the Christians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were raptured away. So there is no need for rational thinking or working together. Everything is already taken care of.

Jeff Doehner
August 19, 2013 at 8:06 pm

We have become a nation of Sociopaths. Corporations and the Government are Sociopathic by nature. This pseudo form of Capitalism we have embraced promotes winning at all costs even if it means to lie, cheat, hurt or even kill. Even “so called” Christians will use your past against you even if they were told the truth about how you fell victim to enemies that have learned to exploit the system to protect themselves. These types of Sociopaths have their day coming. They can hide behind the Sociopathic system that protects their evil agenda but they are cowards. When the system collapses which it will they will be seen for what they are and be dealt with. I actually pray that God takes them out unless HE knows they will eventually repent and become true Christians. Romans 13 is the most miss interpreted verse in the Bible. We are to obey the Government IF it goes along with Gods word. Obedience to tyranny is disobedience to GOD. You can easily figure out who the little cowards are. They will not face a man like myself and say one word but they will attack your Wife and Children when your not around. They will use the authorities to try to hurt you with their feeble lies and assumptions. Little do they know that God protects his Children and they will never win. Anyone that has hurt my Family has been cursed and they will reap what they have sowed. Hitler would have loved having all these “brown shirts” spying on each other like they now do in America. Communism did not work in the former Soviet Union because most people saw through the lies and actually stood by each other against tyranny. In America the people are stupid and just plain apathetic. Communism/Socialism will work here because of that.

CD
August 19, 2013 at 9:27 pm

I stopped long ago, I was in no danger of being trampled by the crowd in back of me.

nominto
August 20, 2013 at 2:32 am

I’m from New Zealand..the “government” here is enacting reforms for the countries spy agency , so no warrant is required or judiciary involved to carte blanche monitor your every move..
while there has been a “bit”[nothing] of retrenchment from the original bill…..and excuses “we are only going to monitor foreign nationals using NZ [as a base]”….. the intent remains.
we [a number of NZ’ers ] don’t trust the government as far as we can throw them [a cliff would be convenient].
the track record here of a government department keeping your information private is atrocious. ..the amount of cases where screeds of private info being “mistakenly ” sent out to someone is not even newsworthy these days [eg/. 9700 lots of personal private earthquake claims/ info sent out to a private citizen ]
the government here is cowtowing to the US current government [actually to the Hollywoood movie moguls in one case] so these reforms complete the move and all we get back is that we don’t understand why it is so important for our own “security”..
my take on the pitiful experience I’ve had with the US DHS is that most aren’t capable to clip bus tickets; let alone making judgement on who is a security threat…mind you ,it ain’t much different here ..a classic example is the senior government dep’t Manager with the fictional University degree[true]..so they can’t even vett their own employees…there have been a few we actually know about ..who knows how many have come and gone….

EDITOR’S NOTE: TYRANNY KNOWS NO BORDERS!

Heinrich Mueller
August 20, 2013 at 4:58 am

A lot of this BS can be stopped by people understanding that is they or anyone else is on a jury to ask themselves and the other jurors, can I convict someone if there is a shadow of doubt? Then ask yourself, were the police involved in any way in this case? If so, then acquit.

Jungle Monkey
August 20, 2013 at 12:27 pm

All of this we have been discussing comes down to one person, who is “me, myself & I”.
Whether it is the greedy 1% who can never get enough for themselves, or the government enforcers who insist on “their fair share”, or the redistributionists who get their end of the deal for (supposedly) “nothing”. I believe social security was designed to get us to welcome government handouts as it actually cost us something, and was supposedly promised to us, without any choice to refuse it. As a ponzi lie, it worked well for some generations. Most of us got used to the idea of relying on and trusting the government to take care of us for working like slaves for 45 years of our lives year in and year out. What a cruel lesson this will be to come! With an automatic good reason (the accursed security) for not disclosing the truth at every turn, can anyone really and seriously have good faith in our masters on earth?

The managers & politicians get “their share” for looking the other way whenever it helps them collect the lucre. What is being avoided that we all want, what is the cost for this system? Truth, fairness, righteousness, freedom, prosperity, abundance, but there is more, and a lot we are missing. For instance free energy instead of expensive oil. Its been available since Tesla, and multiplied in many techniques to achieve, but intentionally withheld, even through murder. Most of us are simply bought and paid for, and there is no going back. Even entertainment is a tool to buy off many an unenlightened & unengaged spirit.

I have heard lately that it will take some horrendous catastrophes to befall mankind before he will even reconsider “waking up”, adopting values or recognizing the goodness that Christ stands for. It has been suggested that this is why God must punish mankind to bring his attention back to God. That may indeed be what is needed to wake us (in multitudes) up.

I fear the bad news is it is very late, for the adversaries of mankind have been preparing in SERIOUS earnest. The commoner (a delightfully appropriate Brit. term) has been weakened and programmed far beyond their own suspicions. They have generally given up on the truth as a result of not valuing themselves enough to seek it. Beliefs will suffice for them. While most of them must have redeeming qualities to God, I find it hard to appreciate all that we have lost in this world.

Is the next “world” the only one worth “living” in? Would it be more merciful to be reborn? We may all be wondering that, as the tyranny increases, and the catastrophes are continually rolled out, even more than they already have been. May God bless and protect us for seeking HIS good spirit, and standing against the Adversary.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sir, very well said! And you correct about the suppression of technology.

Jungle Monkey
August 20, 2013 at 1:33 pm

I wish we could edit these comments Dave.
Please allow me to add:
“…I find it hard to appreciate all that we have lost in this world…. DUE TO “IGNORE-ANCE”. (as an opposition to truth/wisdom, which must be sought to be believed).
EDITOR’S NOTE: GOOD TAKE!

Stegiel
August 20, 2013 at 2:44 pm

Observationally, getting ahead is the American way. If the money is the objective then it is a timeless axiom that you go along and get ahead. Freedom is not something people actively desire. Freedom is a negative quality-as in freedom from something. Americans are quite like other people, willing and able to tolerate damn near anything–politically. They draw the line at a few things, but these are matters of habit and custom that can be altered. Americans have tolerated a nuclear warfare orientation since Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the outcome from the acceptance of that evil is staring us in the eyes.

David Ben Moshe
August 29, 2013 at 4:09 pm

When the government fears the people, you have freedom. In the new America, the government laughs at the people. Why should they fear an apathetic nation of sheep who wouldnt think of overthrowing them. Well, if you want your nation back, thats exactly what it will take. Are you up to the task, even in football season?????